The city council finds and declares as follows:
A. The cost of providing public facilities occasioned by development projects within the city far exceeds the revenue generated by fees exacted from the development projects.
B. The city hereby adopts the report from Kadie-Jensen, Johnson & Bodnar, dated October, 1990, entitled “Development Impact Fee Study for the City of Yucaipa,” which establishes the costs for providing public facilities occasioned by development projects within the city.
C. The development impact fees authorized by this chapter are based upon the costs which are generated through the need for new facilities and other capital acquisition costs required, incrementally, by new development within the city.
D. The fees authorized by this chapter do not exceed the reasonable cost of providing public facilities occasioned by development projects within the city.
E. The fees authorized by this chapter relate rationally to the reasonable cost of providing public facilities occasioned by development projects within the city, which capital facilities and development projects are expected to be consistent with the future general plan and the housing element of the general plan of the city.
F. There is little probability that the capital facilities and development projects to which the fees authorized by this chapter relate will be ultimately inconsistent with the future general plan of the city, and the facilities and anticipated development are based upon an analysis of existing land use and zoning.
G. The fees authorized by this chapter are consistent with what is anticipated to be the goals and objectives of the city’s general plan and are designed to mitigate the impacts caused by new development throughout the city. A development impact fee is necessary in order to finance these public improvements and to pay for the development’s fair share of the construction costs of these improvements.
H. Imposition of fees to finance public facilities and services improvements, including fire services and facilities for the city, is necessary in order to protect the public safety and welfare.
I. The city has pending before it subdivision maps and other applications for residential, commercial and industrial development approval which the city must act upon.
It is necessary for the provisions of this chapter to apply to those developments in order to protect the public health, safety and welfare by the provision of adequate public facilities, to afford developers certainty with regard to their financial obligations, and to ensure that the new development will not create a burden on the interrelated public facilities and services networks of the city. (Ord. 50 § 1, 1990)